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Art does not need to be created. There is no obligation to create. There is, however, the biological imperative to express. A need as fundamental as existence. Suppress it and you'll be spiritually asphyxiated.
We've sorted ourselves into a false binary of the “creative class” and the rest. But expression is universal. Most of us didn’t lose it - we were trained out of it. Educated out. Embarrassed out.
Creative inspiration is a tide. It comes, and it goes. You do not hunt it. What we call “artist’s block” is often just resistance to this reality. Letting go is the deepest exhale a mind can take.
Manufactured expression is contentification dressed up as creativity. Turning human instinct into an assembly line. Seeking validation.
But expression doesn't require an audience. It adds to the shared sediment of culture without asking for ownership, attribution, or permanence.
Even if we do not permit ourselves unyielding patience, the instinct survives.
Unbothered. Uncommodified. Untamed.
From charcoal on cave walls to margins filled with distracted ink.